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This little story got little attention in some of the bigger sites that cover such stories. It caught my eye because of this statement, “This study shows that aggression doesn’t just depend on who you are and who you’re interacting with but also depends on your previous interactions. That’s the unique part.”
The statement is based in a study involving fruit flies. In and of itself, a statement that, especially in a clinical, proportional contextual setting (if you will), one can find nothing but banality in.. But that statement, set against the context of the age’s conflicting governing standards, due process versus bad crime/bad thought prevention, from scientists today should at least raise a few hairs, though don’t lets’ grab our bugout bags and head for metaphorical Valhalla just yet. Still…..
In a peaceful land, this study exists as an intellectual curiosity. In a land at war with itself, this study offers dangerous justifications for authoritarians, justifications for expanding one’s stigmatization of those who think wrongly to extend to those who may have been previously affiliated with them. All of the actors in the chain towards violence have a measure of ‘sin’ to atone for, so to speak.
Here is the key excerpt from the story, followed by the newspoem ‘inspired’ by this story:
Fighting fruit flies: Aggressive behavior influenced by previous interactions – Science Daily
Excerpt:
The study is the first to show that effects of an earlier aggressive encounter carry over in time and across different social groups but not necessarily in expected ways, said Julia Kilgour, lead author and a PhD student in the Department of Integrative Biology.
The study was published recently in the journal Behavioral Ecology.
“This study shows that aggression doesn’t just depend on who you are and who you’re interacting with but also depends on your previous interactions. That’s the unique part,” Kilgour said.
In different settings and from one encounter to the next, the schoolyard bully might turn passive or the mild-mannered office worker might unexpectedly lash out at a colleague.
“Aggression is a plastic trait,” said Prof. Andrew McAdam, who co-advised Kilgour along with integrative biology professor Ryan Norris. “Someone may be aggressive with one partner and not another.”
NewsPoem:
On Fruit Flies Mapping Human Aggression
Aggress.
Ate.
The date. The froth finite.
A Fruit cracks, the juice
Evaporates in a sheet of flies.
From this, the root,
The froth, the known,
We make machines based on the fortune of the projected numbers.
Now, all of our kids have daily supplements.
The froth, the known.
I am speaking to you, friend, don’t do this fruit thing to your neighbor.
Rage is the counter to the loss.
Rage.
Is the counter.
To the loss.
To let go.
The fruit fly is not a machine that knows you.
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